Main Performers | Olga Haley, Gladys Moger, Gertrude Higgs, David Ellis, Robert Radford - vocals, H L Balfour - organ |
Secondary Performers | R A Greir - pianoforte, Miriam Timothy - harp, Anne Godfrey - violin, F G James - trumpet |
Conductors | Sir Frederick Bridge, Herbert Sharpe |
Set List | 'The Christmas Oratorio' (selection), Bach (Gertrude Higgs, Robert Radford), Motet for Double Chorus: 'Now Once Again Our Hearts We Raise', founded on an Ancient Choral, Carol for Quartet and Chorus: 'In Dulci Jubilo', XVIth Century Melody, harm. R L De Pearsall (Gladys Moger, Gertrude Higgs, David Ellis, Robert Radford) Cantata Pastorale: 'Per La Nascita di Nostro Signore', Scarlatti (Gladys Moger, A E Godfrey), 'I Sing the Birth', Parry, 'A Christmas Song', Sir Frederick Bridge (David Ellis), 'Ring Out! With Jocund Chime', Sir Frederick Bridge, Aria: 'Angus Dei', Bizet (Olga Haley, Anne Godfrey, Miriam Timothy, H L Balfour), 'God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen', trad., 'And Did Those Feet In Ancient Time', (Jerusalem) Parry (Robert Radford), 'When Christ Was Born', Parry, 'When The Crimson Sun Had Set', trad., arr. S S Greatheed (Gladys Moger, Gertrude Higgs, David Ellis, Robert Radford) INTERVAL Organ Solo: 'Fantasy On Two Well' known Christmas Carols, John E West (H L Balfour), 'A Babe Ys Borne I Wys', Sir Frederick Bridge, 'Three Kings Once Lived', Cowen (Gertrude Higgs), Ancient Carol: 'Welcome Yule', Parry, 'The Mahogany Tree', Herbert Sharpe (Robert Radford, Herbert Sharpe),, 'Christmas Bells', Sir Frederick Bridge, 'A Carol of Bells', Stanford (Olga Haley), 'Good King Wenceslas', Spring Carol of XIIIth Century (Gladys Moger, Robert Radford), 'Winter', Landon Ronald (Gladys Moger), 'Robin Redbreat', Montague Phillips (Gladys Moger), 'Jesus To Us, To God A Son', from the Aberdeen Cantus, 2662, arr. Sir Frederick Bridge, 'The First Nowell', trad. |
Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1917/49) |